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Show What Ice Will Dear. tt Is said that two-Inch ice will sustain sus-tain a man, or a regiment ot properly spaced Infantry, four-Inch Ico will carry a man on horseback, a squad ron ot cavalry, or light gum, six-Inch Ice, heavy field gunt, such at eighty pounders; eight Inch Ice, a battery of artillery, with carriage! and hones, but not over one thousand pounds a square foot on sledges, ten Inch Ice will sustain an army, while on fifteen-Inch fifteen-Inch Ico a railway can be built and operated. |